Kickstart a Fedora (Anaconda) Install on EC2

Brian LaMere brian at cukerinteractive.com
Fri Jan 28 18:46:56 UTC 2011


Raphaël - I was thinking about this sort of thing myself a few weeks ago,
but just was too busy with other things to play with it.  Maybe I can trick
a few people to work on it with me this weekend at FUDConn ;)

Brian

2011/1/28 Raphaël De GIUSTI <raphael.degiusti at guardis.com>

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been playing around with Amazon EC2, building my own Centos and Fedora
> EBS backed AMI's without much trouble, following tutorials and other
> practices I found on the internet.
>
> But one thing I'd like to do, and I tried to do, is kickstarting an
> installation using anaconda.
>
> So I would have an minimal AMI that only contains a /boot directory with
> vmlinuz and initrd + a /boot/grub/menu.lst file that would look like this :
>
> default 0
> timeout 3
> title RH-Like-OS
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz ks=http://some.server/myks.cfg
>         initrd /boot/initrd.img
>
> And it would parse my ks, start anaconda and go on with the install.
>
> The further I managed to go is to the partioning step with Centos55. If
> someone's interested, there's my unanswered thread on amazon aws' forums
>
> https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=216575#216575
>
> Same process with Fedora 14 only brings me to pvgrub reading the menu.lst,
> then failing on a mmu_update.
>
> So, here come my questions:
>
> I was wondering what, technically speaking, prevents me from doing this.
> And maybe I would understand why everyone is building the system from
> scratch and why I did not find anyone who tried to do the same thing.
>
> Note that I'm not an expert at linux kernels or boot processes, but I'm
> quite curious, and I would really appreciate if you could help me understand
> :-)
>
> Thank you.
>
> raphdg
>
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